{"product_id":"9781915279903","title":"Nightshade Mother : A Disentangling","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lewis, Gwyneth \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/09\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 240 pages, No,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781915279903,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, in diaries that she’s kept since childhood. In these journals, she interrogates the emotionally abusive mother\/daughter relationship, in great pain but determined to find a way through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature help to guide and steady her. Nightshade Mother is a book about the power of art, language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing, forgiving and loving in its approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43699753877548,"sku":"9781915279903","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781915279903.jpg?v=1722703793","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781915279903","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}